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<blockquote data-quote="Kintara" data-source="post: 3908044" data-attributes="member: 33654">The problem with &quot;functional&quot; names is that they are misleading as often as they are helpful, and it really starts to get confusing with a lot of feats because you start getting a whole bunch of synonyms for basically the same thing representing entirely unique effects in the game.The best approach is to form easily recognizable naming conventions that gives the person looking up the feat some sort of pattern to recognize: &quot;Oh, hey, the feat that lets me deform my area effects, it's one of those color/animal [or some other X/Y pattern] feats?&quot; &quot;Golden Wyvern? PHB.&quot;Also, we're only basing this off the text. A Golden Wyvern would be a unique visual signature for when you're searching for it. Some people think visually, so I don't think it's a bad idea if they could match an icon to a feat. They probably won't go that far, but just the image the name invokes might be helpful.I guess I see the organizational benefits if they are actually using it as such.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kintara, post: 3908044, member: 33654"] The problem with "functional" names is that they are misleading as often as they are helpful, and it really starts to get confusing with a lot of feats because you start getting a whole bunch of synonyms for basically the same thing representing entirely unique effects in the game. The best approach is to form easily recognizable naming conventions that gives the person looking up the feat some sort of pattern to recognize: "Oh, hey, the feat that lets me deform my area effects, it's one of those color/animal [or some other X/Y pattern] feats?" "Golden Wyvern? PHB." Also, we're only basing this off the text. A Golden Wyvern would be a unique visual signature for when you're searching for it. Some people think visually, so I don't think it's a bad idea if they could match an icon to a feat. They probably won't go that far, but just the image the name invokes might be helpful. I guess I see the organizational benefits if they are actually using it as such. [/QUOTE]

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